How is the New Nordic Lexicon created?

The nordics.info team

The small, dedicated team at nordics.info commission, edit and publish all the articles, films and podcasts that are published. nordics.info is a research dissemination website based at Aarhus University in Denmark that started in 2018 and is part of the university hub Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World (ReNEW).

Below, you can watch a short video of the team behind nordics.info and The New Nordic Lexicon. You can also follow us on Instagram to get news and updates directly in your feed.

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The reference group

We have a Reference Group primarily made up of students and researchers from our four primary partner universities - Oslo, Helsinki, Södertörn, and Aarhus - who provide ideas and input into the development of the NNL. We also have a Steering Group who also act as our editorial board, made up of academics from the four NNL partners as well as Copenhagen Business School and the University of Iceland.

The main New Nordic Lexicon partners

Researchers connected to Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World in Helsinki in March 2023.

The team behind nordics.info at Aarhus University’s School of Culture and Society coordinate the project with the collaboration of:

the Excellence Hub in Research, Education and Public Outreach, Reimagining Norden in an Evolving World (ReNEW);
the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki;
the Institute of Contemporary History at Södertörn University; and,
UiO:Norden at the University of Oslo.

Many thanks to all the students and researchers from these institutions for getting involved in research dissemination.

Friends and colleagues of the New Nordic Lexicon

Researchers and students from Aarhus University and YoPoNet for Balticness in Aarhus in March 2023.

We also work with other organisations across the Nordic region and beyond on specific types of content. These include:

Our translations

Every page in the New Nordic Lexicon is translated into one other Nordic language. We chose to do this as we do not have the resources to translate everything into every Nordic language, and we wanted to reflect the variety and bredth of all the Nordic languages in the New Nordic Lexicon. That said, the main Nordic language of the New Nordic Lexicon is Danish as we are based in Denmark. Our Danish translator is Caroline Vogt Hansen, who is a Student Assistant at nordics.info. We also have a Finnish translator and editor called Tuire Liimatainen, and many other excellent translators from across the Nordic region, including Jenny Gustafsson (Swedish) and Sóley Eliasdóttir (Faroese).

We work very hard on the accuracy of our translations and we would like to thank our translators as well as many authors who are often bi- or multilingual and help with the task. However, if you spot an error or a translation you do not agree with, do let us know at nordics.info@cas.au.dk.